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Ein alter Mann blickt zurück auf seine Kindheit: Als namenlose Waise wächst er in einem Bordell im Carthago Nova des 4. Jahrhunderts auf. Euterpe, eine der Prostituierten, wird seine Ziehmutter, »Sperling« nennt sie ihn liebevoll. Anfangs hilft er in der Küche, später schuftet er in der Taverne, bis er schließlich in das geheimnisvolle Obergeschoss geführt wird, wo ihn ein furchtbares Schicksal erwartet. Doch wie ein kleiner Sperling entfliegt er mit seiner Fantasie der harten Realität.

Leichenfund am Themseufer. Der Tote ist ein gewisser Harry Stanton. Ein Mann mit zweifelhaftem Ruf. So weit, so schlimm. Für Scotland Yard ein Routinefall. Tod durch Ertrinken. Sherlock Holmes jedoch sieht das anders. Denn er kannte Stanton. Und nicht nur ihn. Er kennt auch dessen Mörder. Und er weiß, dass die Tat bereits vor acht Jahren verübt wurde. Wie kann das sein? Eine Verwechslung? Der Meisterdetektiv nimmt die Ermittlungen auf.

The fall from NHL superstar to domestic disaster was swift and painful. When I became the legal guardian of my five younger siblings, I had no idea what I was doing. One year later, I'm still lost. Coaching CU's hockey team might be the only thing I'm excelling at. But when our star forward is failing math, I have to do what it takes to keep him on the team. Even if it's going head-to-head with Jasper Eckstein. One minute I'm confronting the notorious hockey-hating professor, and the next I'm agreeing to be his date to a twenty-year high school reunion. I don't know how that happened.

Fans von Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake, Sean Wyatt und Dane Maddock werden an Jack Reilly ihre helle Freude haben! Hartnäckig halten sich die Gerüchte über einen tief unter den Bergen Polens versteckt liegenden Goldschatz. Viele Glücksritter versuchten ihn zu finden, doch der sagenumwobene Goldzug der Nazis blieb verschollen. Während eines Besuchs der Gedenkstätte Ausschwitz-Birkenau wird der ehemalige Delta-Force-Soldat Jack Reilly Zeuge, wie bewaffnete Söldner den Komplex in ihre Gewalt bringen. Sie werden von einer Frau angeführt, die einen ganz eigenen Plan verfolgt.

From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration.

Dan has accidentally "Noclipped" into the Backrooms—a bizarro, extra-dimensional Alice-in-Wonderland world, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. Hell, forget about leaving, if Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own.

For the first time, the complete works of M. R. James are available to download in one collection. This unabridged collection of all M.R. James' ghost stories includes tales from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, and A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories. It is expertly read by award-winning narrator Jonathan Keeble.

Die Fortsetzung der epischen "Erddämmerung"-Saga von Bestsellerautor James Rollins. In der fernen Zukunft hat die Erde aufgehört, sich zu drehen. Eine Seite ist in immerwährendes Licht getaucht, die andere in ewige Dunkelheit. Nur in der Zone der Dämmerung ist noch Leben möglich. Doch wie lange noch? Die Visionen der blinden Seherin Nyx wurden vom Hofgelehrten Frell bestätigt: Der Mond wird auf die Erde stürzen und alles Leben vernichten.

As the epic battle for Terra rages and the future of mankind hangs in the balance, former Knight Errant Nathaniel Garro fights among the ashes and fire of the embattled Imperial Palace as the shadow of Horus Lupercal's triumph looms. From the brutal betrayal at Isstvan to the desperate flight of the Eisenstein, through his missions as Malcador the Sigillite's Agentia Primus, Garro's path has drawn him inexorably towards a destiny that can only end in bloodshed.

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her 12 Black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.

People say there's a fine line between love and hate. If you ask Grady Armstrong, the line's as obvious as the one across the middle of a hockey rink. So he can't explain why he doesn't walk away when his Grindr hookup—a guy who accused him of impersonating himself—turns out to be Max Lockhart, a rival player Grady once punched in the face. Apparently, Max can goad him just as well off the ice as he can on it.

Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.

Eine wahrhaft unglaubliche Geschichte weiß der Bayer Franz Xaver Wanninger zu erzählen. Eine Geschichte, die den viktorianischen Meisterdetektiv und seinen treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson ins Königreich Bayern verschlägt. Gemeinsam folgen sie den Spuren des Märchenkönigs. Und begeben sich damit in Lebensgefahr.

'One of the best British crime writers' – Lee Child Roy Grace is about to find out just how dangerous a dead man can be . . . Arriving late for a funeral, James Taylor spots a familiar face in the church – his old schoolfriend Rufus Rorke. Except it couldn’t be him, could it? Because two...

Atticus Mulvaney is the eldest son of eccentric billionaire, Thomas Mulvaney - a role he takes very seriously. Atticus takes everything seriously. Like his brothers, Atticus is a psychopath, raised to right the wrongs of a broken justice system. Unlike his brothers, he’s not very good at it. Jericho Navarro is no psychopath, but he is a vicious killer. Like Atticus, he also has a secret life. To most, he’s just a mechanic. But to a ragtag group of social misfits, he’s Peter Pan, teaching them to eliminate those who prey on the weak with extreme prejudice.

Eigentlich ist es nur ein einfacher Auftrag als Leibwächter, den Tucker Wayne mit seinem Militärhund Kane von der Sigma Force akzeptiert. Doch der Pharmazeut Bukolow hat weder der Sigma Force noch Wayne die ganze Wahrheit erzählt. Denn er ist der größten medizinischen Entdeckung der Neuzeit auf der Spur. Ein Milliardengeschäft, das zusätzlich noch die Leben von Millionen retten würde. Allerdings lässt sich Bukolows Entdeckung auch als Waffe missbrauchen.

Through a stellar cast of politicians, diplomats, spies and soldiers, including T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, A Line in the Sand vividly tells the story of the short but crucial era when Britain and France ruled the Middle East. It explains exactly how the old antagonism between these two powers inflamed the more familiar modern rivalry between the Arabs and the Jews and ultimately led to war between the British and the French in 1941 and between the Arabs and the Jews in 1948.

Met cop DI Rob Marshall is hot on the trail of the serial killer known as the Chameleon, who has abducted, tortured and killed a series of young women in Northwest London. As they close in, the Chameleon—who switches identity to get close to his victims—shoots Marshall’s partner and escapes.

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

In this extraordinary best seller, James Hillman presents a brilliant vision of our selves, and an exciting approach to the mystery at the center of every life that asks, “What is it, in my heart, that I must do, be, and have? And why?” Drawing on the biographies of figures such as Ella Fitzgerald and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hillman argues that character is fate, that there is more to each individual than can be explained by genetics and environment. The result is a reasoned and powerful road map to understanding our true nature and discovering an eye-opening array of choices.